First road trip I have taken without the use of a GPS or smartphone.

It was eye opening. Lucky for me I already know how to get to San Antonio but where 281 ends and all the other high ways begin, I'm shit out of luck. I didn't think I could do it, to be honest. I wrote the instructions from google maps down before I left home and told my brother I'd be there in 4 hours. Coming and leaving SA was the hard part cause I took so many wrong exits trying to head south. Without the comfort of a GPS telling me where to go, I felt helpless and frustrated at times. I stopped at a store for directions to the hospital when I first got there, and the guy I asked just looked at me and asked me why I didn't have a GPS. (???)  Finding your way around is not that difficult if you're already familiar with the place. I would not do it in completely unknown territory. I'd lose my mind!!
That comfort and that fear right there is the result of a society and generation dependent on technology. And that's all of us and that's scary. If I'm gonna keep up this whole "disconnection" from technology, I'm gonna need to learn to read a map.

Also not being able to reach anybody when you're in a different city for anything really sucks. I don't know how people did it back then to travel or tell somebody they are somewhere so they can meet up. I had a hard time being stuck out of my brother's apartment with no way in and no way of reaching my dad to know where he was at with the key. Like NO WAY. They don't have payphones anywhere. I had to wait for EVER!!

If you try it, I'm sure you'll live. It just takes a lot of patience.

If you don't really know the place you're going to, please take a map and bring somebody with you. It's better to be lost with somebody than to be lost alone. And ALWAYS bring a selection of good music cause it's gonna be a long drive.